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That's true for sure, but that doesn't mean that it's valve didn't do an absolute fuckload of work to get proton to be actually functional.

Getting direct3d and vulkan working with actually useful performance was the turning point for Wine being useful for games in addition to just standard applications.

They definitely spent an ass-load of money on that and the fact that Wine was around for 25 years before that just goes to show that no one else was willing to do that.

As a programmer, the biggest problem I have with crypto is that it adds an (I believe) unnecessary pressure on either compute (for proof of work) or storage (for proof of stake) prices for everyone else in the world, for what is seemingly not a huge gain.

Proof of work in particular is awful, because one of the biggest problems that we actually have in the real world is global warming and adding a financial incentive to using more power is exactly the wrong direction we need to be going in. I realize that a lot of crypto is moving away from proof of work, but it's still there.

I mean that might be true, but those key reseller sites are also often grey-market. Sometimes they are legit, but sometimes they resell keys they bought with stolen credit cards etc.

I personally wouldn't buy from a site that I couldn't easily verify is legit (steam, gog, hb, etc)

Multiple indie developers I've seen (wube who makes factorio has been very vocal about it) have complained about losing significant amounts of money from grey/black market keys since they end up being on the hook for fees when people do credit card chargebacks.

No, I don't particularly want to imagine that, thank you.

I don't think you need mono. Net 7 can complete for Linux natively.

How likely do we think this is to be the interop format that the big name messaging apps use to support that EU regulation to allow cross app messaging?

Inquisition was a downturn from DA2 but it was nowhere near as bad as Andromeda or Anthem. Dragon Age was the property they had that they hadn't messed up yet, so if Dreadwolf is bad then we're down to 0.

My counterpoint to yours: YouTube Premium is not available in all countries.

Beyond that, I personally used YouTube Red for years until they killed Google Play Music. I was an avid user of GPM, had several playlists and radios tuned there, and when they announced the move to YT Music, I was hesitant but gave them until literally the last minute to add the features from GPM that didn't exist on YTM, but they never did.

I cancelled my YouTube Red subscription the day that the GPM app on my phone said it wouldn't work again, and on that day I swore I'd never pay YT another penny directly.

I really like this write-up, especially because it goes in depth into the slow transition from "this isn't something that people should emulate" to "even showing that this exists is encouragement for people to recreate it"

That's a super harmful viewpoint in every respect, but especially in sexual contexts.

From reading the article, I don't think that this is an accurate description of the situation.

I believe that Twitter employees have been getting a discretionary bonus, so normally Musk would have been fine simply not paying it out, but as part of the acquisition he promised that he/the company would pay it out as it had been in previous years, with some stipulations, etc.

So the issue now is that he promised he would pay it, which means that he's obligated to do it, because the employees made decisions based on that promise that cost/lost them money.

It seems like very simple promissory estoppel.

If you're talking about Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, why would you pick "Uncharted" to use as your contact point for Tom Holland instead of fucking Spider-Man?

E: This is targeted at whoever wrote the title for Eurogamer of course

One party is significantly driven by a desire to make the government not do anything, so they have no encouragement to get rid of this free leverage they get over the other party.

And all of that is also ignoring the idea that it's not actually possible for everyone to move.

Like, who would be buying these people's homes that they're leaving in FL in order to get a new place somewhere else?

This news article and your response to it are both the most stereotypical Texas things ever.

There's... no details at all other than "it's happening"?

Why even announce this with no details, Knowing it's gonna piss people off? What were sag-aftra and Replica hoping for here?

Nah he's a New Yorker who moved down here. Y'all can keep him.

Dreamcast was released at a bad time, DVD components were still expensive so if they'd included a DVD drive it would have provided some future-proofing, but the console would have been even more expensive than it already was

I don't know if that's true. Like if Apple had to fully replace every single iPhone that had any sort of issue, that I don't know that AppleCare would be a product that they could actually offer, at least a reasonable price. And I know that a significant number of people use apple specifically because they know that they can pay more once and then just go to an Apple store to get literally anything fixed.

If Apple is prohibited from having any tools to fix their own devices (in the world where they just choose to have them non-repairable), then could they actually maintain their business while having to throw away devices constantly?

Thunderclap requires a spell slot and isn't a bonus action. Part of the problem is that every enemy gets to do their full attack, and then go ahead and try a shove just to see if it works for funsies.

If shoves work to the way that they do in d&d, then an enemy going for a shove and failing would mean that they had done nothing on their turn and that you would be net-positive on the round. That doesn't happen in this game because they get to have their cake and eat it too by getting to make an attack and a shove in the same turn.

Enough water in the atmosphere makes us wet.

See: humidity

He already did that with the Tesla models

S3XY

Then they'd have a harder time charging $2/month for it.

I was absolutely heartbroken when I found out that Ron Wasserman doesn't know how to play guitar at all and that this entire song was made on a keyboard

Literally final fantasy 16 is a Sony exclusive right now, so it's not like anyone can even claim it's a historical thing

Same. I used GPM, then when they added YouTube Premium, I used that too. When they killed GPM in favor of YTM, I dropped the entire service.

Windows as an OS has absolutely been showing ads for a long time. Ads for their own stuff for the most part, but those are still ads. They pop stuff up all over the place advocating for paid OneDrive plans or Office 365 or whatever.

That would be a ridiculous position to hold.

A hot dog is clearly a taco.

I'm pretty sure that you generally can't do that, in the US at least.

A C-level officer is required generally to act in the best interest of the company, but as long as the genuinely think that what they were doing was an attempt to improve the company in some way, you'd be hard-pressed to ever prove that they weren't acting in the best interest. You'd have to find physical proof that they were intentionally sabotaging the company, and (probably) no one who is smart enough to become a CEO is going to do that.

I think that they are looking for a resume builder, but I have no idea why AI would be involved.

Yeah, I've said before that as much as people liked to hate on Chris Metzen, it seems that when he left it was a massive migration of optimistic talents out of the company. Now, that's not to say that he caused people to leave, as opposed to him leaving for the same reason that everyone else did, but I've looked at it as a big turning point in blizzard's history of being generally good-natured.

Sony for one. My Xperia One III (a fucking $1300 or whatever flagship) comes with a completely uninstallable Facebook apk

And the character says it so fucking often

/jk

... unless

It looks like maybe is showing the username as opposed to the display name. The username is "@autotldr@lemmings.world" and then the display name is "AutoTL;DR", so I think you're seeing it correctly you're just seeing a different thing.

I don't know what this article says because I didn't read it to be honest, but every prediction I've read (I live in Florida so I'm paying attention to it) has said that the storm is expected to be Cat1 or Cat2 when it lands.

Because it's unclear to me can I just confirm something?

"Maine voters voted to keep in place a 5% cap on rent increases"

Is that an accurate understanding of the situation? If so, good to hear. Great to see landlord co-ops not getting any traction on further parasitizing communities

Well the official app uses a new internal (graphql iirc) API, so that would be nice but it wouldn't really work as easily as that.

That's not a good metaphor. A better one would be:

"A building is flooding and you need to invent the concept of a mop. While you are plugging the leak, send one of your people to start working on creating a mop to use later, everyone in the room can't be plugging the hole anyway."

Sequestration tech isn't there at the moment. If we wait until we we figure out green energy entirely, we will then have to wait again while we figure out sequestration.

We need to be doing both, but we need them to have separate budgets and separate people working on them, because otherwise, yeah, we'll be in a bad situation where we are diverting green energy time/money into sequestration. The problem is that we are fighting against people who don't want to spend any money on any of it. If the fossil fuel people want to work on sequestration instead of green energy, fine, let them. Hell, force them to. Pass laws making them be net-neutral on carbon and that can either be from shutting down plants or capturing everything they put out. If they don't choose to shut down, they'll spend R&D on capture, and we can use that tech more widely in the decades to come.

You say "besides the technical issues" as if that was something small enough that you can just casually brush it aside. Andromeda performed like absolute trash when it came out, and that was a huge reason why people panned it.

As for the story reasons you highlight, I don't agree with most of them personally, but they're subjective so that's on you.

The technical state that Andromeda released in is the biggest reason why I consider it an absolutely trash game.

But it's not "every validator has one HDD". It's "you can establish an out-sized representation of the swarm by spawning more processes with more storage".

The pressure doesn't come from one person mining at home, it comes from organized groups trying to intentionally game the system.